I can’t believe I missed the story about the hijacking. Surely it was in The Courier-Journal and the Herald-Leader. Surely Francene on WHAS or Sue on WVLK talked about it. It had to be on the evening news shows, didn’t it? But somehow I missed the story that our commonwealth has been hijacked by “The […]

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I wish I could look forward to the special session of our General Assembly with something more than fear and loathing, but I can’t. I have no confidence whatsoever that our Senators and Representatives have the intellectual prowess and the moral courage to do the right thing when it comes to helping our signature horse […]

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Here’s my final Preakness toteboard:
WINNER – The Preakness and the sport of racing, which got enormous national publicity because the anticipated duel between the Kentucky Derby winner, Mine That Bird, and the brilliant filly, Rachel Alexandra. The story transcended the normal news outlets, even making the nightly network news programs.
LOSER – The management of Pimlico […]

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A mug shot of David Williams should be posted at every race track and on every barn in Kentucky because the egomaniacal Republican Senate President is Enemy No. 1 to the commonwealth’s signature industry. He has repeatedly opposed any and all attempts to expand legal gaming, even though it’s abundantly clear that the horse industry […]

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The anti-abortion storm troopers of the American Roman Catholic Church are assaulting Notre Dame University for inviting President Barack Obama to deliver this weekend’s commencement address. You can almost hear their hobnailed boots, marching in lockstep, as they trample on our nation’s most fundamental founding principles.
The issue, of course, is the President’s position on abortion […]

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This is the unofficial kickoff of the “Ashley Judd for U.S. Senate” campaign for 2010. In the past few weeks, she has foregone her movie career to tackle some weighty issues. Personally, I think she makes a lot of sense, not that the successor to Jim Bunning needs to be a mental giant.
First she took […]

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Now that our state legislators have repeatedly failed to heed our thoroughbred industry’s very real and very serious call for help, they have turned their attention to our other signature industry to see if they can damage it. The movement to tax a distilled spirits industry that – like the thoroughbred industry – already is […]

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Good morning, America, how are you?
Don’t you know me, I’m you’re native son.
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans
I’ll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.
The train is leaving the station, gathering steam and momentum, taking us into our uncertain future. You can hear its whistle, siren call to hope […]

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When the noted Kentucky football fan Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death,” he obviously had no idea how cold and dreary it can get in Memphis at this time of year. Indeed, to be perfectly honest, the death of the 2008 Wildcat football season would have been preferable to the Liberty […]

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    Nobody asked me, but…
I HAVE a wonderful idea to deal with Kentucky’s revenue shortfall: Add one per cent to the sales tax on all fast-food. It should be an easy sell to the General Assembly if we used the same convoluted logic that’s being used to promote an increase in the cigarette tax.
The medical […]

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